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Minutes to Midnight
03:04
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Minutes just to midnight
Showered in the starlight
In my neck of the woods
I can see real good, oh and I can hear real good
I try, try to understand
A balance and a structure of a plan
Habits, they’re supplied and in demand
Action and consequence, consequence, consequence
Ya know I don’t like to lose my cool
Like I’ve been known to do
Quick hands and a short fuse
Left me cold outside with the wild eyed emotional wreckage blues
I try, try to understand
A balance and a structure of a plan
Habits, they’re supplied and in demand
Action and consequence
Consequence when it don’t feel right
Consequence when you got no sight
Consequence when the shadows grow and creep into the light
Gonna be alright
Til the moon gets low and the sun goes down
Til the house gets built on the edge of the town
I’m alive I’m alive it’s a wonderful time
I’m alive and alive and alive
Girl I want to love you
Yeah, I want to love you
It’s all I wanna do
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2. |
Forty Miles
03:12
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Forty miles that’s all it takes to get to Baltimore
Four different kinds of medical grade in my top drawer
It’s alright lift me up just like a bird in flight
I don’t mind I got a reason and I got a right
So just sit me right down on the couch and figure it out
It feels like a whole damn year since I left this house
Best friend of mine took a fall and he can’t be found
Sunlight beaming on the window
The big hand’s moving oh so slow
You never really know what you came for until it’s time to go
Get in the car put it in drive and put the pedal to the floor
Pay no mind to capital gains or being broke on tour
Well you want some more
I want my muse to be heard by you
It’s all I all I ever really wanted to do
Is make people feel good even when they’re feeling so down
Try and help out with a thought and a wonderful sound
Best friend of mine took a fall and he can’t be found
Shadows creeping on the pavement
Fall it fell and then winter went
Spring it sprung and now summer’s making me sweat
Sudden death and a life worth living
A Brother gone and a debt forgiven
Still around but now you’re hidden
I won’t forget it goes on and on
Body gone but the spirit moves
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Worried for the future while you’re sippin’ on a cup of doubt
Pour a little sugar on it sweeten this bitterness out
Before I lose composure before I start to cuss and shout
Every singing soul is in a battle for a different war
Before you pull that arrow back be certain what you’re aiming for
Oh how am I to focus when every day there’s more and more
Down with this omen down with this curse
Is it getting better or is it getting worse
Hand to the heart head to the soul
I won’t get down, like I did before
I won’t get down, like I did before
Pull this thing together don’t you understand
Everyone must do what they can
Oooooooh, do what cha can
Can you paint a picture? or can you fill a journal to heal?
It’s hard to know who you are, when everybody tells you what to feel
Oh damn this indecision the status quo ain’t shaking no deals
Down with this omen down with this curse
Is it getting better or is it getting worse
Hand to the heart head to the soul
Well I won’t
Get down, like I did before
No I won’t
Get down like I did before
No I won’t
Get down like I did before
No I won’t
Get down like I did before
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
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4. |
Time Don't Wait
04:48
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Feel the pain in my shoulder
Tiny holes where they cut me
When it rains I’m in pain
But in the sun I’m free
Both sides of the river
Both songs I can sing
Hear the bells of redemption
Go on and let them ring
Time waits for no one
Fools bury their hearts away
Cold rain on the window
Cold fingers on strings
Cold feelings in the world outside
Or at least it seems
But I know there's a heat source
Running through everyone
Every sister and mother
Every father and son
Time waits for no one
Fools bury their hearts away
Life ain’t always fun
But the shadows are still part of the light
Time don’t wait no
Time don’t wait no
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5. |
Bit of Belief
03:03
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I was born to be wild
I was born to be wild
We were raised to be brave
We've been raised to be brave
I climbed up and I fell down
I climbed up and fell down
I got used and pushed around
We got bruised and we got broken
Left caught up in the old system
We got tied and we got twisted
Ya know it always takes one more lesson learned
To feel the heart of life
It takes a little bit of your sacrifice
It takes a little bit of belief
Baby believe in me
I was told to be bold
I was told to be bold
Not to wait till it’s too late
Not to wait till I am great
I get up and I get down
I get up and I get down
We get lost and then we get found
I feel lost and I feel
Tied enough to quit my trying
Throw away these songs that I sing
But then I know, it’s the only thing that keeps me sane
To find the heart of life
It takes a little bit of your sacrifice
It takes a little bit of belief
Baby believe in me, yeah
When it snaps back with a thunderous clap
All my friends, got my back
When I think back just to where I’m at
All I want is what I already have
What I already have
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6. |
Go Get On Your Way
03:38
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Two cups in the morning
Now go get on your way
Go to these places that you’d love to go
Say these things that you want to say
Play the songs that you want to play
That’s what you must do, I think
To make it to the end
Day to day and dust to dust
Dust you will become again
Stardust you will become again
Not quite yet she said
Dying not quite dead
Throwing paper down the well
Decide what to sell
Two cups in the evening
Two bottles of red wine
Too much thinking is feeling like sinking
These ladders are hard to climb
These pathways are hard to find
But that's what we must we must do, I think
To make it to the end
Day to day and dust to dust
Stardust we will become again
Stardust we will become again
One more song she said
Hungry not quite fed
Throwing paper at the wall , some sticks and some falls
Such a sweet romance
When the birds and the bees they dance
Leave it all out on the floor
Until there's no more
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7. |
Incredible Animals
04:07
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Dogs bark at morning light
Too late to say good night
There’s solace in your eyes
All is forgiven
We try to multiply
From 2 add 3 get 5
Be kind and always strive to stay in the rhythm
Be Cool be content
With all this money spent
The future has no end, this is the rhythm
Put the bow to the fiddle
Oh it’s so dependable, intangible and expandable
Are we not incredible animals?
And it goes
Too high to realize
Too smart to be unwise
With confidence I try to kill cynicism
Pardon this dissonance
Who’s for and who’s against?
Who’s happy show of hands?
Clap to the rhythm
Make music with em
Oh it’s so dependable intangible and expandable
Are we not incredible animals?
And it goes
Catch karma it’s alive
It’s sticky it’s a vibe
Gets on your clothes like tide
Sending a ripple
Cool down and compromise
This life is yours and mine
Together energize
This is the rhythm
All is forgiven
Oh it’s so dependable intangible and so flammable
Are we not incredible animals?
And it goes
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8. |
Worry What They Do
03:28
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By the time you hear this I hope things will be ok
Friends may change trends will fade
and in the end it’s all the same
Worry what they do, don’t worry what they say
Worry what they do, don’t worry
I’ve come to find that all I hear is nothing but hear and say
Tongue and cheek and mouths that leak
Like factories in the bay
Worry what they do, don’t worry what they say
Worry what they do, don’t worry
Cause it’s 1 for survival 1 for sustain
1 for rebuttal and 1 for refrain
2 steps in front of the other and again
3 steps forward 4 go back
By the time you hear this, well there will be a new face to blame
Another name in some other shame
In the end it’s all the same
Worry what they do, don’t worry what they say
Worry what they do, don’t worry
Now it’s 1 for survival 1 for sustain
1 for rebuttal and 1 for refrain
2 steps in front of the other and again
3 steps forward 4 go back
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Annapolis, Maryland based trio influenced by and performing blues, folk, soul, americana, and more.
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